Posted by bistiza on 3/9/2015 7:27:00 AM (view original):
Posted by getbedarded on 3/8/2015 11:05:00 PM (view original):
Posted by milwood on 3/8/2015 9:09:00 PM (view original):
Oh, I thought you started this thread a great way by warning people it was a rant. You should have left it there instead of trying to defend your position. Your position isn't even that wrong under normal circumstances. But this wasn't normal circumstances. Why your gameplay didn't work was correctly explained to you. Just accept why it happened and move on with more knowledge about this game than you had before.
Was it correctly explained by him? We still don't know how the distro was set up.
I wouldve played -5 too. Shoot all day with mid-70s perimeter guys, I'll take my chances.
If this works this way, then -5 doesn't have any drawbacks as far as I'm concerned. The setting is relatively meaningless. Run whatever you want and it'll work.
you should try this then, run -5 all season, and see how well you do ;)
note that i don't actually recommend that... obviously. just saying, if you don't think it has drawbacks, try it, and you will see it does. 1 game sample is meaningless.
the # of 3pta is low, but your team is not very good at 3 point shooting. and why are you starting lachance over borland? that is a really bad decision, outside of this game. when i look at the two teams, its pretty close, basically a toss-up. you have to keep in mind that +/- setting is one of MANY factors that go into the outcome. for +/- to be able to take you from a 60% to 90% favorite, it would have to be a massive factor, maybe 10 or 20% of the game outcome, just on one factor. do something similar for tempo, distro, and depth chart, and what now the player ratings are completely meaningless? it does not (and should not) work that way. +/- is important but its a small piece of the whole. if your justification for why you should have won a game comes down to 1 setting, then you weren't much of a favorite, period - the RNG can easily outweigh any of these little couple % of the total equation type settings. the game would be broken otherwise. the only possible exception is with respect to tempo in certain high fatigue settings, that can be pretty enormous in impact.
so in short, looking at both teams, it was a close matchup. the other guy took a chance, hoping your mediocre 3pt shooting wouldn't burn him, and it didn't - not really a surprise there. the 3pta was definitely on the low end of the range, but the low per ratings of your guards absolutely factors into that - your starting line has really crappy 3pt shooting ability. if you are relying on winning with the 3, with this weak of a 3pta team, in the s16, i would say that is the real issue. once you make these deeper rounds, you have to be in a position to have a stronger plan than that, if you want to expect to advance.
overall, good team though, and a good season. should get a prestige bump, nice job!